I have a planned wake up date too but that is only for the breeders.......hatchlings, yearlings and subadults feed through the winter with a 70 to 85 thermal gradient.....
If I could keep the ambient heat in my cabin 70 to 85 F I would maybe be able to keep them all, except for the breeders of course, awake and feeding. But my cabin gets down to the high 40's at night in the winter. I can provide hot spot hides, but the room temperature is cold all night. The pyros unanimously decide to go off feed over winter and it is just easier to let them all sleep, and come out when it is warm in the spring. The photo-period seems also to influence them. Corpus Christi must be a lot warmer, especially with the Gulf influence. Maybe sea level also influences them.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

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